Cane



March 13, 1.928. 1,662,102

I. CAESAR CANE Filed July 22. 1926 jig: I 2.

J INVENTOI? ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 13, 1928.

IRVING oimsaaor NEW'YORK, 1v. Y.

CANE, f

Application filed July 22,

The present invention relates to improvements in canes, umbrellas, parasols'and the like, and has for its main object to provide a combination cane or the like and portable lighter wherein a frictional sparkingdevice is employed. I T

Another object of the invention is to so construct the cane and the lighter that the friction disk of the lighter may be actuated by drawing it along the floor or ground, the cane serving in such case as an extension or handle of the lighter, so that the latter may be actuated without stooping down to the floor or ground.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combination cane and lighter, the lighter element of which is protected by a detachable element of the cane, which detachable element serves at the same time as the means for extinguishing the flame after the lighter has been used.

A further object of the invention is to provide a coutrivance of the character mentioned which is simple in construction, eiiicient in operation, durable in use and capable of manufacture on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so difiicult to make as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such a combination.

lVith these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrange.- ment and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention- One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which I Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of the lower end of a cane stafi having a lighter combined therewith; Fig. 2 is a similar sectional View, the sect-ion being taken at right angles to that at which the section shown in Fig. l is taken; and Fig. 3 is a section taken on line. 33 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the lower end of a cane staff. This lower end is hollowed out, as shown at 11, to pro- 1926. Serial No. 12 L226.

vide space for a lighter 12. Adjacent the bottom of the cane are provided exterior screw threads. 18, meshing with interior threads of a cap 14:, which forms at the same time thetip of the cane. I

The lighter comprises a casing 15, preferably, of metal, the said casing being fitted -into the hollowed out portion of the cane stalfl 'llheib'ottom face ofthe casing is disposed flush with the bottom edge of the staff.

Into the casing extends, as usual in devices of this type, a wick tube 16, the latter projecting beyond the lower edge of the cane staff, and its wick 17 being saturated with a liquid hydrocarbon, such as gasolene, which is stored within the casing. The lower portion of the casing is reduced in size as shown. at 18 and from this reduced portion projects a horizontally disposed post 19, on which is rigidly mounted a vertically extending tube 20, provided at its end, adjacent the wick tube, with lugs 21, between which is rotatably mounted a friction disk 22 on a pivot pin 23. This friction disk is of hard metal, such as steel, and is roughened on its peripheral face, as shown at24; in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings. 1 A bar of sparking material, pre fez-ably pyrophoric material, is fitted loosely in the tube 20 and is pressed against the roughened periphery of the friction disk by any suitable means. The friction disk projects below the free end of the wick tube.

The lighter 12 may be removed from the cane stafiytor instance when it is intended to replenish the supply of gasolene or when tube 20. i

The operation of this device is as follows: When it is desired to use the lighter, the cap 14 is unscrewed from the cane staff and the friction disk 22 brought into engagement with the floor or ground and drawn along such floor or ground so as to rotate the friction disk in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig; 2 of the drawings, whereby a shower ofisparks is driven from the pyrophoric material against the exposed portion of the wick, thereby igniting the latter. After using the device, the cap 14 is screwed onto the staff, whereby the flame is extinguished. In making use of the lighter, the cane is used as a handle or as an extension of the said lighter, so that the friction disk may be operated without the user stooping down toward the floor. or ground.

It is obvious that, while herein a specific lighterconstruetion has been described; any other may be used without departing from the invention, which lies mainly in theprovision of a mechanism which forms an extension of the lighter so that the latter may be used without stooping down toward the fioor or ground on which thevfriction disk of the lighter is to be moved so as to rotate the same.

What I claimiis: H

A device of the character described comprising a canestafl hollowed out at its lower end and provided with exterior screwthreads adjacent its tip end, a'lighter fitted intofltlie hollowed out portion of said staff comprising a casing the lower portion of which is reducedin'size, a wick tubeon said casingprojecting below the lower end of said cane staff, a horizontally disposed post projecting from the reduced portion of said casing, a vertically extending tube mounted on said post provided at its end adjacent said wick tube with 111 s, a friction disk IRVING CAESAR. 

